Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

George Orwell

Heinrich Heine

Jack London

Daniel Defoe

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Emma Goldman

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.

Ernest Hemingway

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Henry Morton Stanley

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Gerald W. Johnson

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

Richard Harding Davis

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Patrick MacGill

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

What makes the goal of accuracy so vexing for chatbots is that they operate probabilistically when choosing the next word in a sentence; they aren't trying to find the light of truth in a murky world.

We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?

The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.